How has Trump handled the post debate debate? He digs a deeper hole.
His Twitter comments about Megan Kelly were galacticly stupid and he managed to start new pissing contests with several other people such as Eric Erickson. The point is not whether it was right to disinvite Trump to the conservative forum, the point is that a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party to the president of the United States left himself vulnerable to be disinvited. Having been disinvited, Trump engaged in another pissing contest and demeaned himself as well as his adversary. The list of pissing contests which this "vulgar" man (George Will's description) has engaged in literally grows every day. How many times will Trump punch the Megan Kelly tar baby?
As I said in the vanity to which I alluded in the earlier reply, Trump must become more and more outlandish to keep the media bubble expanding until it bursts or disillusion his media generated followers. Post debate, Trump has chosen to double down, to inflate the media personality even more, to antagonize yet one more element of the American electorate and to sacrifice potential support to keep the image going. Sooner or later, someone will say, enough is enough.
In contrast, Ted Cruz is so adept in debating and handling media interviews that it is a given that he will behave reliably as a conservative and flawlessly under the klieg lights. My way of expressing it has been, Ted Cruz never puts a foot down wrong. It is a pity that Cruz has been shut out from the Sunday morning talking head shows but, with these poll results, he will get exposure and with that exposure he will prosper. We do not need to worry about Ted Cruz handing the media or the Democrats soundbites with which to attack him and, by extension, conservatism. Trump cannot open his mouth without starting pissing contests, Ted Cruz can stand on the floor of the Senate for 21 1/2 hours straight and not give the enemy a single opening.
Nixon said about his downfall because of Watergate that he "handed his enemies a sword and they stuck it in." Trump is doing the same thing day after day. Cruz has not and will not.
